Remarks on the 2nd Declension: the words belonginghereto are far less in number than those of the 1st, perhaps seven scoreof simple nouns or thereabout, but they are often irregular, we shalltherefore try to give a list of them ; their marks, besides the plur. -ir,are the freq. dropping of the dat. sing, -i, the ace. plur. -u, and thecharacteristic í: I. fundr: skrið-r, stuld-r, sull-r, sult-r,veg-r, frið-r, kvið-r (a womb), feld-r, verð-r, brest-r, gest-r, rett-r,kost-r, burS-r, skurð-r, þurð-r, fund-r, mund-r, gris-s,na-r:—inflex.-aðr,

-lei/, Ingi-björg, Guð-björg, jror-björg, Vil-borg, Ás-laug, Guð-laug,Guð-rún, Sig-rún, Sig-ný, As-ný (gen. -nýjar), jþor-ey, Guð-leif, Ingi-leif; in names of foreign origin, Kristin, Katrin, Elin; in all the pr.names the -u fixedly remains (in the appellatives it is often dropped),and this not only in dat. but as a common case for dat. and ace. 3.feminines with the inflexive -ing, fœð-ing, eld-ing, drottn-ing, kerl-ing,kenn-ing, þekk-ing, virð-ing, sending, bygg-ing, uppstign-ing, sae-ing,etc., so many that it would be in vain to try to record them all; theyhave -ar in plur. and thus belong to the 2nd declension : in mod. usagemany of them have the -u in common for dat. and ace., thus drottning-u= reginae and reginatn, kenning-u = doctrinae and docírinam, fœðing-u

- nativitatem and nativitati, but this is very rare in old writers, yetdrottningu reginatn (ace.), Mar. 232, 304. 0. in -ung, djorf-ung,horm-ung, laun-ung, etc., but only in dat.; they have also -ar in plur.